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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...read an article in The Dartmouth after that weekend suggesting things as deprecatory and juvenile as those proposed by Savit, I would have been ashamed. I cannot help but think that the majority of Harvard students agree that Savit is naught but an ugly stain on a healthy Crimson rug. Speaking, I am sure, for all of the Dartmouth community, I look forward to seeing all of Harvard in Hanover for the next Harvard at Dartmouth football game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kangaroo Court | 11/2/1976 | See Source »

...years. Stromberg now owns an amplifier he purchased in Japan for half of what it would have cost him here. He's saving for a turntable so he'll be able to play some of the Japanese records he acquired overseas. From Petersen's bedroom wall hangs a rug he picked up in Central America, and he's looking for a place to put some Indian dress quilts. Kimball wears a watch he bought in the Orient, and he likes to lounge around the room in a pair of Korean pants. Davis wears some sandals he brought with him from...

Author: By Dennis B. Fitzgibbons, | Title: They Took Two Years to Proselytize, But Now They're at Harvard Again | 10/7/1976 | See Source »

What makes better sense, she says, than an upright and moral Baptist to appeal to the Republicans who can't respond to the Republican Party because of the institutional sin that Ford just swept under the rug...

Author: By Janice L. Cox, | Title: Defining 'Born Again' | 9/28/1976 | See Source »

...that, and the $1,000 he now receives for an evening's performance, his life has changed little. His beloved black 1941 Buick sedan and a '65 Dodge Dart are the only family automobiles. "I might like to walk on a little bit nicer rug," he admits. "But if I get caught up in big cars and fancy homes, I'll lose touch with the people. My music is simple honkytonk. It's nothing too eloquent 'cause I'm a simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South/music: A Honky -Tonk Man | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...ends the evening with several hours of simple country dancing. His other habits are equally Spartan. Lunch is usually nothing more than tea and bread and butter; dinner is often boiled mutton and turnips, washed down with barley water. He dresses plainly, and he will not even allow a rug on his bedroom floor, calling such a luxury an effeminacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Resolution of Farmer George | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

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